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15 March 2022
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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The keynote speakers are Dr Khabele Motlosa (right), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at NUL, and leading Pan-Africanist scholar Prof Molefi Kete Asante(left).
The
Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS) at the University of the Free State (UFS), together with the
National University of Lesotho (NUL) and the Academic Forum for Development of Lesotho, is hosting an online think tank on the transnational communities of the Lesotho-South Africa border from 19 to 21 March 2021. The theme of the conference is
Lesotho and South Africa: a clarion call for a Pan-Africanist future.
Dr Munyaradzi Mushonga, Programme Director: Africa Studies Programme in CGAS, is the convenor of the conference and is also leading the UFS borderlands panel. The borderlands project is jointly funded by the Office of the Dean: Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS, and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).
For more information and to register for the conference, click here
Faculty of the Humanities presents research seminar
2009-08-03
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Pictured, from the left, are: Dr Croucamp, Dr Tania Coetzee (Programme Director) and Prof Botes.
Photo: Mangaliso Radebe |
The Programme Governance and Political Transformation in the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of the Free State recently held a two-day research seminar on the Main Campus. The first day was reserved for presentations from the Masters and Ph.D graduates of the programme while the second was for students who are currently enrolled in the programme. The guest speakers were Prof. Lucius Botes, Dean: Faculty of the Humanities, who delivered a paper on the topic: Governance and Development: The need for a scholarship of engagement and Dr. P.A. Croucamp from the University of Johannesburg who spoke on The Methodology of Quantification: Measuring Social Constructs.